Have an initial offer from lyft and waiting on google. Lyft: (L5) 190 base 650k RSU 20k bonus TC: 350k Leveling at google is L4. The google recruiter told me that they won’t be able to match the lyft offer. According to her it falls beyond L4 bands. Given that I already went through a full day of onsite interviews and then 2 additional coding interviews (HC 😑), I don’t want to perform any additional interviews for leveling. Also I don’t have much time left on the lyft offer. Is it possible for google to be able to reach the 300k mark ? If so, should I consider google over lyft ? Thanks!
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Thanks! The thing that would motivate me to choose google over lyft would be the ability to move teams for career growth. Also long term wise google seems better (family planning, wlb, career growth, etc) Although a difference > 50k would make me want to think twice
Also adjust Lyft comp if it's paper money.
Given leveling - lyft. Push harder on stock, base is very solid. Base is not very top, but high enough. Top RSU is almost double of your initial one. Get at least 800-900k.
What is your background ?
Helpful to browse around http://levels.fyi
I see there are a few entries for L4 with TC > 300k. So not sure if the recruiter is misleading me, or if their policies have changed.
Yeah, seems it depends on interview performance but also Google is kind of lowballing recently. I was barely able to get 300k TC for L5 SWE in Seattle
Take the higher level, you’d be waiting in line for promo to L5 at google. It can be quick but there is also uncertainties
Surprised to hear that from G. Looks like in the past month or so G has become more frugal with their offers as maplesyr commented above. That said, I think you can negotiate more on the lyft offer. For L5 I think you could get more. May be they are waiting for a competing offer to bump it up.
Google no longer gives competitive offer.
They could reach 300 but it would be top of the band. Recently Google has been frugal with their offer. Is 50k worth to you to work for Google? I don't know how is it working for Lyft, but if WLB was similar, I would choose money.
Lyft RSUs are currently $0